Proverbs 7:3
Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call prudence your friend.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8And you shall bind them like a sign on your hand, and they shall be placed and shall move between your eyes.
Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and truth abandon you: encircle them around your throat, and inscribe them on the tablets of your heart.
Proverbs 6:21Bind them to your heart unceasingly, and encircle them around your throat.
Isaiah 59:21This is my pact with them, says the Lord. My Spirit is within you, and my words, which I have put in your mouth, will not withdraw from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offspring, says the Lord, from this moment, and even forever.
Jeremiah 31:33But this will be the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord: I will give my law to their inner most being, and I will write it upon their heart. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →